About Us

The Bendigo Primary Care Centre was established to enhance primary care services for the Bendigo community. It provides comprehensive multi-professional primary health care services. Construction was jointly funded by the Australian Government GP Super Clinics program and the Victorian Department of Health.

Services

The centre provides a range of services:

a GP clinic offering medical and nursing services

a direct access clinic providing same-day appointments for patients who are unable to obtain an appointment with their own doctor, and

a preventative and continuing care team that includes diabetes nurse educators, podiatrists, physiotherapist, dieticians and mental health professionals.

specialist clinics

The centre currently has a paediatrician and bariatric surgeon providing services to private patients. The Bendigo Primary Care Centre is always happy to be approached by health professionals who would like to join the team.

Teaching

“If we learn as a team, we will work as a team”

Training the next generation of health professionals to meet the challenges of the increasing demands on the health care system is a major focus of the Bendigo Primary Care Centre. The centre provides an integrated, inter-professional health education and training environment where students learn about complex health care in multi-professional teams. It incorporates pre-vocational clinical placements for nursing, medical and allied health students as well as high-quality training for post-graduates such as GP registrars and pre-vocational doctors through the Prevocational General Practice Placement Program (PGPPP). The centre also provides training for allied health and nursing students. We are an accredited training practice with trained and accredited supervisors and teachers.